The California Collegiate Athletic Association announced its All-Conference basketball teams on Wednesday and Cal State San Bernardino and Cal Poly Pomona were represented on both the men’s and women’s sides.

Cal State San Bernardino senior center Vanessa Wilt was named the CCAA’s Most Valuable Player while Cal Poly’s Reyana Colson took home Freshman of the Year honors.

She is the first Cal State player to earn the MVP award in the 12-year tenure of coach Kevin Becker. Wilt helped the Coyotes (21-7) to a second-place regular-season finish and No. 4 West Region ranking. They were also ranked nationally earlier this season.

“She is certainly very deserving,” Becker said. “You look at the numbers she put up and it would be hard to see her not getting it.

“On top of everything she is also a great student and an even better person.”

Wilt’s 69 blocks set a single-season record, besting the 59 of Celeste Gude in 1994-95 and equaled by Jill Bekar in 1997-98.

Her 110 blocks are four shy of the school’s career record but the Coyotes have at least one more game to play in next week’s regional tournament.

Wilt, who transferred from Cal Baptist for her junior year, has also set new school marks for rebounds with 380 this season, and her 13.6 rpg average ranks second in the country.

She earned conference player of the week honors five times and chalked up 24 double-doubles in 27 games.

“Other teams focused completely on her,” Becker said. “By the end of the season she had two and three defenders on her every night.

“They knew she was the one they had to stop.”

Colson, of Compton, averaged 13.2 points and 4.8 rebounds and was one of two Broncos named to the second team. She was the only freshman to make the first or second team.

“I’m very happy for her,” first-year Broncos coach Scott Davis said. “She deserved it. I didn’t get a chance to recruit players when I got here but she was the one player I was able to bring with me. I knew what kind of impact she could have on a program.”

Among the others named to the second team were:

Cal State junior point guard Shanae Blake, a product of Chino High and Chaffey College, and Cal Poly senior forward Vanessa Dominguez. It was the second second-team selection for Dominguez.

On the men’s side, the Coyotes had three first-team selections in center Michael Earl and guards Marlon Pierce and Lance Ortiz, all seniors.

The Broncos are represented by junior forward Larry Gordon on the first team and senior point guard Angelo Tsagarakis on the second team.

Player of the Year honors went to Humboldt State’s Devin Peal, who edged out Pierce and Gordon.

Rodney Yearby and Jerrell Smith of Cal State Dominguez Hills shared the Newcomer of the Year award.

The two played together at Riverside Community College. Smith is also a product of Ontario High School.

Bill Tressler of San Francisco State took home Coach of the Year honors. His team went from 6-21 to 17-11 this season. The Gators were again picked to finish last and wound up tied for third.

Michelle Gardner has covered high school sports and local colleges for the Daily Bulletin and Sun since 2002. She previously covered a wide variety of sports from the high school level to the professional ranks in Florida with tenures at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Naples Daily News and the Fort Myers News-Press and is graduate of the University of Florida.